Teen Style – Lara’s looks #02

Ottobre 28, 2016

Lara* Style – “I’m not perfect but I’m happy to be me”

Ciao! Today we talk about feeling well with our own body. I wanted to start saying that beauty is not defined by being fat or thin. Someone’s beauty comes from the inside and, in my opinion, this is much more important than the physical one.

Online I see many girls and boys judging other people because of their body. Instead these people are just massive, but nothing so exaggerate like these guys say. They call them “obese”, but why obese? This is a wrong use for this word noticing that it is used to define curvy people. Maybe these guys don’t really have a clear idea of what “obese” means. They judge and I think it’s not completely their fault, it’s also because of the image of this “perfect girl” that magazine and social deliver. These “perfect people” are often the result of a photoshopped work or simply they reflect a certain body type. However these images give a wrong idea on how you “need to be”, even if there are no rules to feel good with ourselves.

In my life

I have a friend that keeps telling me: “I wish I had her body, I suck”. Truthfully, according to what I can see as many other can, she has a beautiful body, curvy and tonic. Her goal though, is to become that perfect girl/model type, because a model doesn’t have “big legs”. To her she has big legs, but in reality they are just very muscular.

Around me I see also many girls saying: “I’m on diet”. At this age you can’t think about a diet when you spend hours and hours doing sports every week and when you a wonderful body. Let’s not forget that diets should always be followed by a doctor. The word diet doesn’t mean eating less, it means eating healthy.

Our body need the necessary nourishment, everything that it needs. Sometimes even stop eating sweets and desserts could create problems and make you gain weight. The other day, at school we faced this argument. The teacher told us that, in this case, our body would be taking sugar resources from muscles to transform them into fat, so we would also be weaker. There are also girls saying: “I don’t eat so I’ll be thin”, but you don’t become thin without eating, on the contrary it gets worse and you start getting sick.

What matters

I think it’s very important to have a right knowledge of your body and of what it needs. You always need to accept yourself for how you are, always respecting your health. Doing exercises is good, it also helps burning the toxins that you accumulate during the day, eating health it’s important.
Let’s not be fooled by the fictional images, maybe we can discover that we are more beautiful than many actresses and models. And guess what… even without Photoshop!